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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Plenty of Thanksgiving weekend CIS action

Ordinarily a weekend where the action is sparse, this year's Thanksgiving Day weekend offers the most matchups in recent memory with games all across the country. In Edmonton, the Alberta Golden Bear Invitational includes RMC, Saskatchewan, Grant MacEwan (ACAA), Concordia College (ACAA). The three CIS teams will play each other and RMC and the Golden Bears will play a third game each against ACAA opponents. In Montreal, the traditional tournament season kick-off tournament, the Concordia NIKE Tournament welcomes Winnipeg Wesmen and new coach Mike Raimbault, Ryerson Rams and New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). The action kicks off Friday at 6 PM with Winnipeg facing the hosts while Ryerson meets NYIT in the night cap. The winners play off in the championship on Saturday just after the consolation game. Maybe the strongest tournament field in the pre-season convenes at UNB Eric Garland Memorial tournament as likely pre-season Top 10 programs St. FX, Cape Breton and Lakehead play a three-day, three-game round-robin tournament at the Aiken Center, home of the hockey Varsity Reds, with a floor being brought in to cover the ice in a nice arena setting. Also, UBC, Fraser Valley and Manitoba make trips in Ontario to face OUA West competition with McMaster, Laurier, Guelph and Brock hosting multiple games.

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